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Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul
Dying Gaul

Image credit: National Trust Images

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The bronze original was part of the great ex-voto which Attalus I (241 BC–197 BC) set up at Pergamum after his victories over the Galatians. The statuette is a copy after the antique, the Roman original of which was first recorded in a inventory of the Ludovisi collection in Rome, 1623 and some time before 1737 it was acquired by Pope Clement XII (1730–1740) for the Capitoline Museum where it now remains, although it spent some time in France between 1798 until 1816. Apart from many plaster casts it was famously cast in bronze by Luigi Valadier for the Duke of Northumberland at Syon House in 1773 and smaller bronzes had been made in the seventeenth century by Gianfrancesco Susini and Zoffoli in the eighteenth century. The pathos was immortalised in the fourth canto of Lord Byon's poem Childe Harold (1818):

National Trust, Ickworth

Horringer

Title

Dying Gaul

Medium

bronze & marble

Measurements

H 14 x W 28 x D 14 cm

Accession number

850847

Work type

Sculpture

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National Trust, Ickworth

The Rotunda, Horringer, Suffolk IP29 5QE England

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